26/05/2026
Last week in the Bridgend area was apparently National Blue Badge Awareness week, and the council were checking and fining those found to be abusing the blue badge scheme. https://bbweekofaction.com/
With a large Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle, it used to be a nightmare to find spaces to park, and weirdly we'd get more comments/glares from people when we had the WAV. We even got ticketed once for being parked up in a blue badge space- for having a wheelchair accessible vehicle in the carpark! Couldn't make it up!
With an autoimmune disease affecting my mobility myself, I didn't expect how much of a positive difference having a blue badge would make, but it has. I don't know if I'm just oblivious or I limp more than I realise, because I've never seen anyone glare at me for using my badge either. Versus the looks and glares Richard would get parking up with his WAV.
The National Blue Badge Awareness Week is a coordinated national campaign supporting local authorities to tackle Blue Badge misuse, protect disabled parking access, and collect meaningful enforcement data.